Fun is...
...when your doctor feels around the back of your neck for your lymph nodes, finds them, and exclaims, "Oh my goodness! That's HUGE!"
And she knew it was big. She's the one who checked it for me seven weeks ago. Checked it and said, if it doesn't get small again in two to six weeks, come back. Or if it gets bigger. (Which it has. Apparently a lot bigger.)
There are two that are big. One in the back. One right under my chin. It's "probably nothing."
Probably.
Blood tests tomorrow. The results should be in by the end of the weekish. She told me if we found something, I'd get a referral. If we didn't find anything, I'd get a referral too.
Guess the vacation's over, huh?
Edit: It's probably nothing. But the niggling thing is that lymphoma is characterised by painless swollen lymph nodes, often with no other symptoms. Whee.
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Sending good vibes your way.
I'm glad you made it home safely! At least you can be relatively sure you don't have the plague.
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Beth Ballingall
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That is scary and horrible. And it probably is absolutely nothing.
For what it's worthh, one of my dearest friends is a lymphoma survivor. I don'tknow if it's any consolation, but at least if it IS lymphoma, the survival rate is tremendously high, and treatment results, usually, in a cure, not just remission.
Please keep up posted.